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June 20, 2024

Sri Lanka: Kandy, the city on the hill

Kandy Lake lies just outside, wearing a soft fine mist over its silvery surface and a rippling parapet wall curving around it like a cloud. A royal bathing pavilion on the shore had been built for Kandyan queens, and has found a second life as a much more prosaic police post.

December 10, 2021

Cà phê sữa đá and vibes (part 3)

I'm not the same, not after you was the refrain of the song that soundtracked my last week; not after life in this town, not after the friends made, and certainly not after those unexpected connections, some so last-minute they were very nearly missed.

June 20, 2021

Da Nang: Afterglow

Astronauts aboard the ISS see 16 sunsets from space every day, while the Little Prince once saw 44 by moving his chair a few paces, but it only takes one sundown, one quotidian scientific event of light refracted through particles in the atmosphere, to hurl me back into my feelings.